Endlessly Circulating Messages in IEEE 1588-2008 Systems

David Broman and Patricia Derler and Ankush Desai and John Eidson and Sanjit A. Seshia

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2014-62

May 13, 2014

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This paper studies conditions where messages endlessly circulate in a system of IEEE 1588-2008 clocks. The study is based on two independent analysis techniques. One uses a discrete event simulation environment for describing the operation of the best master clock (BMC) algorithm in IEEE 1588-2008. The second uses a model checking tool. We discuss several cases illustrating conditions under which circulating messages occur and the effectiveness of measures to squelch these messages. This paper demonstrates that one or more of the squelching mechanisms must be implemented

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Broman:EECS-2014-62,
    Author= {Broman, David and Derler, Patricia and Desai, Ankush and Eidson, John and Seshia, Sanjit A.},
    Title= {Endlessly Circulating Messages in IEEE 1588-2008 Systems},
    Year= {2014},
    Month= {May},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-62.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2014-62},
    Abstract= {This paper studies conditions where messages endlessly circulate in a system of IEEE 1588-2008 clocks. The study is based on two independent analysis techniques. One uses a discrete event simulation environment for describing the operation of the best master clock (BMC) algorithm in IEEE 1588-2008. The second uses a model checking tool. We discuss several cases illustrating conditions under which circulating messages occur and the effectiveness of measures to squelch these messages.  This paper demonstrates that one or more of the squelching mechanisms must be implemented},
}

EndNote citation:

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